Poems

Search our extensive curated collection of over 10,000 poems by occasion, theme, and form, or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

Search our extensive curated collection of more than ten thousand poems by occasion (Autumn to Easter, Veterans Day to Valentine’s Day, etc.), theme (love, nature, sports, etc.), and form (sonnets, haiku, etc.), or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

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Title	Author	Year
Self-Portrait as Artemis	Tarfia Faizullah	2015
Portrait of a Lady	T. S. Eliot	1915
Postcard to I. Kaminsky from a Dream at the Edge of the Sea	Cecilia Woloch	2010
Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck (Sonnet 14)	William Shakespeare	1609
A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M.	Amy Lowell	1914
After My First Breakup, My Father Writes His First Email	Emily Jungmin Yoon	2026
First Time Brushing Teeth Next to You	Aimee Nezhukumatathil	2024
Trans Study: Untitled 4 (Facial Expression)	Cameron Awkward-Rich	2023
I want	Jordan Jace	2022
Revolutionary Letter #3	Diane di Prima	1971
At a Window	Carl Sandburg	1916
My 24 Hour Version	Lois Red Elk	2017
From “The Princess”	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	2014
A Man’s A Man For A’ That	Robert Burns	1795
On His Deceased Wife	John Milton	1658
Come Slowly—Eden (211)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Flying at Night	Ted Kooser	1980
Two Countries	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
Letters from a Father	Mona Van Duyn	1982
Night Funeral in Harlem	Langston Hughes	1994

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